@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:It's not a matter of taste, but survival.
I remember your speculating about that b4.
I have no opinion on that, beyond: maybe.
Olivier5 wrote:Simple moral issues:
- What if your genetically modified son hates his blue eyes and blond hair?
The same as my disliking being more darkly complected.
At age 8, I was exposed to more sunlight than I liked
and I was very abruptly darkened. I did not like
that.
I never completely recovered from it; that 's
not fun.
When the other kids my age in the naborhood got
really mad,
thay used to accuse me of being "an Indian or a Mexican."
If my blond son hated it, he 'd be no worse off than I was
at having brown eyes n black hair.
Olivier5 wrote:(as he'll probably do)
On what basis have u
assessed the probabilities??
Y do u believe that he will hate "his blue eyes and blond hair" ??
Please explain, if u don't mind.
Olivier5 wrote:- What if he looks at you and your wife as not his real parents?
What if you start looking at him as some stranger's kid? (logical, since
he would have very few genes from you, you won't 'see yourself' in him
and vice versa)
Its
NOT logical
because his genes wud be ours, in improved form, not any stranger.
We 'd be fully his real parents.
Olivier5 wrote:- Do you feel comfortable about thinking of your future kid
as a scientific experiment or 'project'?
If I were going to have a son,
then: yes.
Olivier5 wrote:- What if he gets gravely sick or dumb
because the genetic manipulation goes badly wrong?
Will you scrap him and try again?
Maybe try again.
I dont know how to "scrap" him.
Olivier5 wrote:- What if 90% of people chose to have boys,
and no girls? (this is actually becoming a problem in some countries)
The Individual citizens r within their rights to do what thay wanna do.
Olivier5 wrote:I'd rather not go through these issues and have my kids the natural way.
OK, but u might
STILL have the problems that u mentioned, anyway.
Olivier5 wrote: still don't like this or that in their body,
but it's not my fault.
It
IS if u transmit inferior genes.
Olivier5 wrote:And they won't die just because some genetic wizard fucked up.
Everyone dies anyway.
Olivier5 wrote:Have your arian kids if you like.
It's easy: just ask some German to screw your wife.
That wud not work because he 'd not be my kid,
as he
WUD be if he had my modified genes in him.
This discussion is
theoretical. I don't want any kids.
David